Love Letters: An Ask A Barista Novel

By Richard Harder

He can write the words that make a stranger fall in love. He's spent his whole life too afraid to say them himself.
Julian Alvarez runs a coffee shop out of a mid-range hotel and a secret out of a community corkboard. Leave a card with your first name, and - if he chooses you - an anonymous love letter arrives, written by a man none of his clients has ever met. No names. No faces. Just the truth, said plainly, by someone with nothing to gain from saying it.
It started as a way to survive the worst four minutes of his life. It became the thing that keeps him alive.
Three years and two hundred letters later, Julian has built something he never expected: a devoted following of women who gather every Thursday to read the best lines out loud, a found family who'd do anything to protect him, and a rule he's never once broken - never write anything you couldn't have learned without watching.
Then a letter reaches the wrong hands. A husband with more money than patience decides someone owes him answers. And the one woman Julian never let himself write to - the one standing twelve feet away at the front desk every single day - starts asking questions he isn't ready to answer.
Julian is about to learn that some truths cost more to keep than they do to tell. And that the hardest letter he'll ever write is the one with his own name at the bottom.
A slow-burn romance with real teeth - for readers who love a hero worth rooting for, a mystery worth staying up for, and a love story that earns every page it takes to get there.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H93QHVGV
• ISBN13: 9798187538294
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"